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Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water

Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water is a survival horror video game developed by Koei Tecmo and published by Nintendo for the Wii U. The fifth main entry in the Fatal Frame series, it was released in Japan in…

61 27 September 2014 ESRB M

Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water is an adventure developed by Koei Tecmo Games, released 27 September 2014 on Wii U.

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What Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water is

Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water is an adventure game developed by Koei Tecmo Games and released in 2014. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Wii U only. It carries an ESRB M age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The main character, Yuri Kozukata, works at an antique shop and is able to see the "shadow" of objects she touches and can bring people back from the "shadow world". Yuri's gift is the reason she distances herself from other people but she also uses it to help others find lost items or missing people when they come asking for help. One day, a girl called Fuyuhi Himino enters the store with a request for Hisoka Kurosawa to find a friend of hers, Haruka Momose, who has gone missing around the area of Mt. Hikami. Unfortunately, Hisoka was currently absent at the time, so Yuri takes up the request herself instead. People with such intentions enter the forest during the witching hour when the…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 39 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water holds a critic score of 61 out of 100. That places it above 20% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 8 points below the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5 750 or over, 4 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or over, AMD Radeon RX 550 or over, 1280x720. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 25GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water launched on 27 September 2014, within three weeks of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Alien: Isolation, Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition and Bayonetta 2. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Alien: Isolation, Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition, Bayonetta 2.

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Quick answers

Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water — frequently asked questions

When did Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water come out?
Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water was released on 27 September 2014 for Wii U.
What are the minimum PC requirements for Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water?
At minimum, Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water needs Intel Core i5 750 or over, 4 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or over, AMD Radeon RX 550 or over, 1280x720 graphics, 25 GB available space of storage.
How many GB is Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water?
The PC version needs about 25 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("25 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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